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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Political bingo

By way of a Gentle Reader we have learned of a way to make listening to the speeches of the current POTUS fun.

Take a five-inch by five-inch square of paper and divide it into 25 squares by way of a magic marker. In each square, in a random fashion write each of the following:

Restored our reputationStrategic fitLet me be clearMake no mistakeBack from the brinkSigns of recoveryOut of the loopBenchmarkJob creationFiscal restraintWin-winAffordable health carePrevious AdministrationGreed on Wall StreetAt the end of the dayEmpower/EmpowermentTouch baseMindsetCorporate greedBallparkGame planLeverageInheritedUnprecedented

Now, sit down to listen to the next political speech from the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and each time one of the 25 words or phrases passes his lips, mark out that square.When you get a full five blocks horizontally, vertically or diagonally marked off, jump up and yell, "Bull[deleted]!"See? Fun already.LawDog

22 comments:

I'm happy to report the laptop narrowly survived my reaction. I think you should have issued a beverage alert at the top of this post. I'll warn the other half before he sits down with his cuppa, that is if I can stop giggling.

As is "historic", it seems to pop up in reference to anything this administration has done or is trying to do.

I wish I knew why they insist he's such a great speaker. During the election, I was in the car with my younger daughter, then 10, and Sean Hannity played a clip of one of his (many) speeches. Daughter listened to it and said "He says 'um' alot, doesn't he?"

I suppose it's like the Emperor's clothes - the kids hadn't yet been indoctrinated into thinking he was good yet?

I'm with CDH. I can't stand the voice and the radio gets changed or turned off. If there is a sentence before my hand can hit the dial, my tongue usually exits with a ptbhhhh and the dashboard gets another cleaning. Granted, the same reaction occurs with princess p.